"Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis."
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"Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold."
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"Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind."
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"Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together."
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"I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky."
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"Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter."
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"Playboy magazine announced that they are going to support the troops by sending them emails from Playboy playmates. After hearing this the U.S. troops said 'Just our luck, we get emails from playmates, but we're embedded with Geraldo.'"
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"California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is exposed to it is still in line at Space Mountain."
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"I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it."
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"Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times"
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"a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )"
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"Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad."
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"A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes."
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"There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option."
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"I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck."
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"For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving."
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"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."
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"Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them."
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"I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it."
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"I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. "
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